With the release of Destiny 2’s latest DLC Beyond Light around the corner there are some things you can do to make your transition and power-leveling a “lot” easier. In the steps listed below we will go through some of the final preparations you should be taking.

#1 MATERIALS AND TOKENS

Get and safe as much materials and tokens as you can from the destinations that will not enter the Destiny Content Vault (DCV).

It’s a waste to infuse anything at this moment as with the release of Beyond Light everything will get their power-level raised to 1230 so stop infusing and start saving your materials and tokens asap.

You should already have some gear and weapons that go up to 1360. Below are the materials and tokens you should be prepping at this very moment.

*don’t delete any materials or tokens not listed below as we do not know what will happen with them yet

#2 BOUNTIES / QUEST / XP HOARDING

We will be doing things a bit different this time around. Just save the bounties listed below.

I would also save any Exotic engram you can. They will not drop to Beyond Light power level but they can drop new exotics from Beyond Light. 

As you can see we will not be saving Daily bounties this time around as this way we will do the new daily bounties (probably 8) and get the usual powerful rewards (more on that later on)

* Just like last season and the season before Iron Banner bounties are likely to disappear from your inventory upon Beyond Light release. It’s best to get your rewards from them now

#3 WEAPON MODS

You probably have the weapon and armor mods. If not be sure to visit the gunsmith every day at the tower and try to get some mods from ADA from the forges if possible.

#4 EVERVERSE ITEMS

Nothing new is currently known about eververse and it’s items.

#5 VAULT CLEANING

If you’re like me this might be a “tough” one (I have a hoarding problem) but clean your vault. Get rid of weapons you don’t use, armor you don’t use just get rid of anything you haven’t used last season (as you probably never will)

I recommend using Destiny Item Manager and using the filter:

sunsetsafter:arrival 

anything that lights up with this filter can be deleted. You could save some “god rolls” for PvP Quickplay or for nostalgic reasons.

#6 EXTRA’S

MOD COMPONENTS: Get them from ADA-1 (Black armory)

MATERIALS AND ENHANCEMENT CORES: Trade them at the Spider (Tangled shore)

  or #7 RELEASE DAY! 

STEP 1:

* DO NOT TURN IN ANY SAVED BOUTIES ! *

If you have multiple characters start Beyond Light on your least favorite one (not your main) and (if possible) go the the tower first. Also be sure your character inventory is empty, only wear one set of armor and guns that you want to use when starting the new Beyond Light campaign.

Once in the tower make sure to equip the ghost for the activity you will be doing. When starting Beyond Light you probably want a Ghost with XP mods applied (see below for more info)

*Beyond Light will feature a new GHOST system 

Be sure to equip your favorite ghost (you can probably pull them from the collections tab) and add any XP gain mods you can. There will also be specific strike / crucible / gambit mods you can apply to your ghost so be sure to have more than one ghost on your character equipped with new mods for any activity

• Open World *materials & chests mods *xp mods
• Crucible *crucible mods *xp mods
• Strikes *vanguard mods *xp mods
• Gambit *Gambit mods *xp mods

STEP 2:

* DO NOT TURN IN ANY SAVED BOUTIES ! *

Get the new armor from your season pass (first reward you can collect on your season pass)

and equip the new armor (or not?)

STEP 3:

* DO NOT TURN IN ANY SAVED BOUTIES ! *

Get any new bounties you can (Gunsmith / Strikes / Crucible / Gambit / ?)

I would stick with global non specific bounties (not tied to an certain activity) so probably Gunsmith and some daily bounties from Zavala that can be done without playing a strike or nightfall activity. (check them all just to be sure) *or any new bounties from new vendors. (Shaw Han for example)

STEP 4:

* DO NOT TURN IN ANY SAVED BOUTIES ! *

Enjoy the new campaign and start leveling.

STEP 5:

* DO NOT TURN IN ANY SAVED BOUTIES ! *

You probably don’t have 8 bounties done yet for any activity at day1 remember

* DO NOT TURN IN ANY SAVED BOUTIES ! *

you can probably start turning in bounties on your second day of playing.

!! **** !! During the power grind try to keep all items on your character on the same power level if possible. If you need a specific higher power level item (gauntlets, helmet, kinetic or special weapon) try to turn in tokens to get that item to drop or use your season pass if possible. This way you ensure you get the most out of your Powerful rewards. !! **** !!

You want to save up NEW bounties (daily bounties as you didn’t save them except the EDZ and NESSUS ones if you followed this prep guide *SHOW ME AGAIN PLAESE? ) once you get 8 new bounties done, start turning in those NEW bounties first to receive your first powerful (tier1) reward (*turn in 8 bounties / see screenshot). *! TURN IN THE NEW BOUNTIES FIRST !* you will get PENALISED if you turn in your old saved bounties before the new ones (The Powerful reward will have a lower Power Level)

*some examples of the powerful rewards after doing 8 bounties

Once you received your Powerful reward from Gunsmith(Tower), Zavala(Vanguard), Shaxx(Crucible), Drifter(Gambit), Hawthorne (clan bounties/personal XP) and *Shaw Han (EDZ). you can start turning in your OLD saves bounties for the activity you got your Powerful reward from to get the XP for your season pass. 

You can now start doing this for each activity on each of your characters. Don’t forget to use the new guns with a higher power level on your 2nd and 3rd characters to get the most out of the power grind. This will also ensure you end up on your main character with the highest possible power level as gear and weapons will drop at the average level of a given character.

That’s it for now (As far as I know – if I forgot anything or am wrong about something please let me know)